ABSTRACT

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

chapter 1|11 pages

1.4 Royal government

chapter 1|3 pages

4.2 Edward the Confessor 1042–66

chapter 2|4 pages

1.2 The feudal system

chapter 2|3 pages

2.2 Henry I 1100–35

chapter 2|10 pages

3 THE ANARCHY

chapter 3|8 pages

3.1A disputed throne

chapter 4|7 pages

2.4 Descent into civil war 1259–64

chapter 5|5 pages

THE REIGN OF EDWARD I5.1 MAN AND KING

chapter 5|4 pages

9 Aftermath of conquest

chapter 5|7 pages

3.2 The crisis of 1297

chapter 6|1 pages

3.6 Bannockburn

chapter 6|9 pages

4 THOMAS OF LANCASTER

chapter 6|2 pages

5.5 Aftermath

chapter 7|1 pages

EDWARD III 1327–77

chapter 7|4 pages

2 EDWARD III AND GOVERNMENT

chapter 7|1 pages

4 Financial pressures

chapter 7|4 pages

4.3 The king’s favourites

chapter 8|19 pages

2.3 The adolescent Richard

chapter 9|2 pages

THE 15TH CENTURY

chapter 9|1 pages

2.2 The succession

chapter 9|9 pages

2.3 Henry VI 1422–61

chapter 9|5 pages

4.2 Edward V and Richard III

chapter |1 pages

Governmental change

chapter |5 pages

Wales

chapter 12|4 pages

1.3 The nine days’ queen

chapter 12|11 pages

3 ELIZABETH I 1558–1603

chapter 13|5 pages

6.3 The storm gathers

chapter 14|3 pages

2 THE GROWTH OF EXTREMISM

chapter 14|2 pages

3 TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF A KING

chapter 14|2 pages

4 CREATION OF A COMMONWEALTH

chapter 14|1 pages

5.2 Signs of strain

chapter 14|5 pages

5.3 The Instrument of Government

chapter 15|3 pages

2.7 The Bill of Rights

chapter 16|14 pages

2 POST-REVOLUTION POLITICS

chapter 17|6 pages

THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY 17.1 INTRODUCTION

chapter 17|10 pages

4 THE EMERGENCE OF THE WHIG OLIGARCHY

chapter 18|6 pages

THE LATER 18TH CENTURY 18.1 INTRODUCTION

chapter 18|18 pages

4 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

chapter 19|11 pages

THE REFORM ERA 19.1 INTRODUCTION

chapter 19|5 pages

5.1 The Bill

chapter 20|8 pages

4 CHARTISM

chapter 20|6 pages

7 CHANGE AND PROGRESS 1846–67

chapter 21|4 pages

THE LATER 19TH CENTURY 21.1 INTRODUCTION

chapter 21|12 pages

0 The judicial system

chapter 22|5 pages

2 VICTORIA’S EARLY YEARS

chapter 23|12 pages

4 THE CRISIS BEGINS

chapter 24|3 pages

2.3 The Thatcher years and after

chapter 25|5 pages

3.3 Aftermath

chapter 26|13 pages

BRITAIN AND EUROPE: THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

chapter 26|1 pages

7 THE CURRENT POSITION

chapter 27|16 pages

DEVOLUTION 27.1 INTRODUCTION

chapter |2 pages

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